Censorship

Censorship

·       In the 1980’s many music videos were banned as they were deemed too ‘revealing’. An example of this is Duran Duran’s ‘Girls on Film’ as there were topless women and they were mud wrestling. As a consequence of this it was banned by the BBC

·       In the 1990’s again some music videos were banned by the BBC due to the ‘revealing nature’ and an example of this is Madonna’s videos as they were seen as quite sexual. Also, Michael Jacksons video ‘They Don’t Care About Us’ was banned by the BBC and MTV. This is because they felt that there was an underlying anti semantic message and he was also inappropriately touching himself

·       In the era of the 2000’s the Robbie Williams music video – Rock DJ – was censored before the watershed as it showed the singer peeling his flesh off and was deemed unsuitable to view during the day. However, after the watershed it could be watched uncensored. In the Dominican Republic people would not watch the video as they felt that it stood for Satanism. Eric Prydz ‘Call on me’ was tried to be banned as it shows women exercising in a provocative way. T.A.T.U and ‘All the things she said’ was also tried to be banned as they two singers indulge in an extremely passionate kiss but there never was a ban

·       In 2010 many of Lady Gaga’s videos have had to have been censored as they showed too much nudity. Also Rhianna’s SnM video had to be banned in some Countries and on YouTube had to have an 18+ certificate as it showed the singer chaining the man up and indulges in a lesbian kiss

·       Throughout the years not much has changed on the censorship lines except as the years have gone on you can now see more suggestive music videos and women and men are dressed in small amounts of clothing

The BBC which banned some music videos from being shown

T.A.T.U - raunchy video which was banned in some Countries